Wetland hydrology, area, and isolation influence occupancy and spatial turnover of the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1589-1600

  Cosentino, Bradley J ^a   Schooley, Robert L ^a   Phillips, Christopher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Environmental stochasticity; Hydroperiod; Illinois; Landscape structure; Metapopulation; Source sink; Target effect

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; DISPERSAL; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HYDROPERIOD; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; METAPOPULATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STOCHASTICITY; TURTLE; VEGETATION COVER; WETLAND;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 78049319747     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9529-3     Document Type: Article

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